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goad

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goad1 /ɡəʊd $ ɡoʊd/ verb [transitiveT]  
1  CAUSEto make someone do something by annoying or encouraging them until they do it 驱使，唆使 → provoke
goad somebody into (doing) something
 Kathy goaded him into telling her what he had done.
凯茜逼着他把自己所干的事告诉了她。
goad somebody on
 They goaded him on with insults.
他们辱骂他，逼着他继续干。
2. TTBto push animals ahead of you with a sharp stick 〔用尖棒〕驱赶〔牲畜〕
Examples from the Corpus
goad• But if he thought that he could goad a reaction out of her then he was sorely mistaken.• He was simply doing this to goad her.• No Irina Volkova to goad him with her arrogance and her interference.• Each year Asbury tried to reach every state in order to goad his men and to supervise their work.• These moves goad households and businesses into spending more on goods and services.• He repeated it constantly, goading Rosenberg.• They walk up the hills and goad the agents into chasing them.
goad somebody into (doing) something• Several boys surrounded him and goaded him into a fight.• Should you goad him into attacking you, you might find the aftermath disappointing.• They walk up the hills and goad the agents into chasing them.• His minders goad him into flapping his fins a bit but there is no spark in his fishy eye.• He was trying to provoke her, deliberately goading her into saying more than she intended.
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goad2 noun [countableC]  
1  CAUSEsomething that forces someone to do something 刺激，激励
 The offer of economic aid was a goad to political change.
提供经济援助是政治改革的推动力。
2. TTBa sharp stick for making animals move forward 〔驱赶牲畜的〕尖棒
Examples from the Corpus
goad• His calmness was a goad she hated him for.• The idea of millennium: this was the goal and the goad behind so much of the mission.• Jotan glanced back once, and then he applied the goad energetically to the p'tar's hind quarters.• Meditation is the goad, the bit and the whip of the mind.• Alexei searched for the metal-tipped goad which he knew must be somewhere.
Origin goad2
Old English gad
goad1 verbgoad2 noun
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